iPod Nano: Impossibly small, impossibly delicate

I never could see the appeal in those things... But as a gadget freak, I have bought things and later either wondered why I bought it, or marvel at just how cheap they make stuff for today... I have an old walkman that I bought years ago that cost me just over £100, my DVD player (single region and had to be chipped) over £290 all my early hi-fi gear (censored) :D ... but... and this is the big BUT.... :cool: I still have all of them. they all still work 100% and have never once failed. (actually.. an led indicator lamp went in one of the amp switches) When I think about it, £100 10 years ago is really not far in monetary terms from what kids (or thier parents) today are paying for thier MP3 players, so I can see some comparisons...

As I have to get back out walking (for health reasons) I take my trusty CD walkman with me, and as my walks are only an hour, I only need an hours worth of music.. and i still wonder why people need 1000 songs at one time... and how many have actually sat through that many songs in one go. (I make that about 50 hours?) :eek: any way... iPod nano? nano thanks.... :p

(I'll leave the Mork & Mindy jokes for somebody else) :D
 
Excellent points Jaguar!! I can't see the thrill of having thousands of tunes/songs on an MP3.

Gabs xx
 
i could ! whatever sort of mood you are in you can get music to match it !

if your like me and have to walk 2 school ( or work or anywhere! ) you will love having a selection of songs to listen to ! also in lessons you can listen to something else other than the songs you were walkingto school lol :)

other people may have different views but me personnaly thinks it a great idea! especially, lets say on holiday, you dint have to bring ALL your CD's ! or get an itrip for your car and you can listen to your tunes :):)

G~MAN
 
I dunno if I need a THOUSAND songs to fit all my moods....to only listen to a few 100. Like I've said in the past... I have about 10 of my favorite songs on my cell phone... and I have a 215mb mp3 player which is smaller than your average stop watch. That is more than enough... holding 114 songs right now. But if I were to invest that much money into an MP3 player... than I want it to be an Mpeg player. Then again... I now use my game boy and and have 2 1GB flash cards. All the music videos, songs, and Full legnth movies I need. I think people just need to use thier resources better.. and stop paying more.
 
G~MAN said:
i could ! whatever sort of mood you are in you can get music to match it !

if your like me and have to walk 2 school ( or work or anywhere! ) you will love having a selection of songs to listen to ! also in lessons you can listen to something else other than the songs you were walkingto school lol :)

other people may have different views but me personnaly thinks it a great idea! especially, lets say on holiday, you dint have to bring ALL your CD's ! or get an itrip for your car and you can listen to your tunes :):)

G~MAN
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Absolutely agree. It's good to have music to suit whatever mood you're in all the time. Fortunately for me, I don't have to walk to school anymore ;)

I got about 10 CD's in the car, each of which has at least 8 albums on it in mp3 format, and sometimes I still can't make up me mind what to play.
 
I have a compilation of music in me car which I did in 1997 and still listen to the same thing without getting bored :D
 
I think if I had an iPod I would never be able to choose what to play. I'm bad enough with CDs in the car (when I'm at my parents, I don't have my own car unfortunately) - with thousands of tracks to choose from, I'd spend more time trying to decide than actually listening! :o
 
Just for the record i dont like the Ipoo's....


My Zens been good as gold ever since i got it way back at the beginning of April, No battery probs no cracked screen, no playback probs. no worries! :)

Sexy Bex said:
I'd spend more time trying to decide than actually listening
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I know the feeling.. I have learned to just listen to it on random, or pick an album to listen to.... :thumb:
 
I suppose I should mention that as an ex record shop employee, DJ and sound engineer, my record collection would take me around 2 years to put on CD let alone decide what I wanted on any one day :D at the moment, i have a Gary Numan album on the CD player, and thats fine.... tomorrow... oh.. er... not sure... :D
 
Jaguar said:
I suppose I should mention that as an ex record shop employee, DJ and sound engineer, my record collection would take me around 2 years to put on CD let alone decide what I wanted on any one day :D at the moment, i have a Gary Numan album on the CD player, and thats fine.... tomorrow... oh.. er... not sure... :D
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If you like Gary Numan me no surprised you an ex DJ :p ;)
 
har de har..... ;)

I never played gary numan at any gig - would not want to frighten the punters, well, I did play Cars when it came out but thats about it... :D and i'm only an ex dj coz I got bored (there is only so much abba and the nolan sisters you can take on a friday night) It got that bad I was able to tell the time by the song being played.. oh.. "i'm in the mood for dancin" last orders in 5 minutes :D And woe betide anybody playing the clubs that even tried to change the music.... :eek: seriously, if you attempted anything different, you would have been lynched...
 
Jaguar said:
har de har..... ;)

I never played gary numan at any gig - would not want to frighten the punters, well, I did play Cars when it came out but thats about it... :D and i'm only an ex dj coz I got bored (there is only so much abba and the nolan sisters you can take on a friday night) It got that bad I was able to tell the time by the song being played.. oh.. "i'm in the mood for dancin" last orders in 5 minutes :D And woe betide anybody playing the clubs that even tried to change the music.... :eek: seriously, if you attempted anything different, you would have been lynched...
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Ohmigod, I feel for you :eek:

I never played any clubs that bad but I done a fair few weddings where I swear I could've just put on a four hour tape and plonked a cardboard cutout of myself up there, same ol songs..... ;)

Luckily for me, most gigs were metal/indie, which I loved, lotta good times :)

Ok, Gary Numan jibe was cheap, but my lil bro is crazy on him and I constantly take the rise outta him so you're fair game ;)

I spent Chistmas 2003 in Spain and all the hotel DJ played every night was the same selection of songs he thought all the Brits would like, boy, have they got us wrong. Well, me anyway, I wanted to scream.

Eventually found an Irish bar in the end where, although the music weren't that clever (too sugary paddy, if ya get my drift) at least they sold a fair pint of Guinness :)

And I still think ya can't have too much of a music selection with you when you out and about.

If you were playing 'I'm in the mood for Dancing' you ain't no spring chicken are ya? Haha ;)
 
spring chicken? i wish... :D 42 at the last birthday, but I do know a few local DJ's that are a LOT older than me, and are still playing the same crap week in - week out... :eek: I still get dragged kicking and screaming out of exile every now and again for a party or reuniion.. and I even did a few "divorce parties" they were very funny, especially as I quite often ended up playing a gig with some girls who's weddings I had played at :cool:
 
floppybootstomp said:
All I-Pods are rubbish :p

They're cheaply made and fall apart :p

The headphone socket is the first thing to go :p

They're over-hyped and over-priced :p

All owners are fashion victims :p

Creative Zen all the way :)

The views expressed in this post are the extremely biased, twisted and distorted views of Mr Flops and do not neccesarily represent the views of PC Review UK.

Mr Flops would also like to make it quite clear he doesn't give a monkeys what you think of the aforementioned points of view, cos he knows he's right :p
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YOUR TOTALLY RIGHT DUDE!!
 
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